Burying jihadis : bodies between state, territory, and identity / Riva Kastoryano ; translated by Cynthia Schoch.
Contributor(s): Schoch, Cynthia [translator.]
Language: English Original language: French Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190942960 (ebook) :Uniform titles: Que faire des corps des djihadistes?. English Subject(s): Terrorists | Jihad | Dead -- Political aspects | Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- IslamAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780190889128DDC classification: 320.557 LOC classification: HV6431Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: What should states do with the bodies of suicide bombers and other jihadists who die while perpetrating terrorist attacks? This original and unsettling book explores the host of ethical and political questions raised by this dilemma, from (non-) legitimisation of the 'enemy' and their cause to the non-territorial identity of individuals who identified in life with a global community of believers. Because states do not recognise suicide bombers as enemy combatants, governments must decide individually what to do with their remains. Riva Kastoryano offers a window onto this challenging predicament through the responses of the American, Spanish, British and French governments after the Al-Qaeda suicide attacks in New York, Madrid and London, and Islamic State's attacks on Paris in 2015.
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Translated from the French.
This translation previously issued in print: London: Hurst & Company, 2017.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What should states do with the bodies of suicide bombers and other jihadists who die while perpetrating terrorist attacks? This original and unsettling book explores the host of ethical and political questions raised by this dilemma, from (non-) legitimisation of the 'enemy' and their cause to the non-territorial identity of individuals who identified in life with a global community of believers. Because states do not recognise suicide bombers as enemy combatants, governments must decide individually what to do with their remains. Riva Kastoryano offers a window onto this challenging predicament through the responses of the American, Spanish, British and French governments after the Al-Qaeda suicide attacks in New York, Madrid and London, and Islamic State's attacks on Paris in 2015.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 14, 2019).